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Collection of handy git commands

Remote repositories

A remote URL is Git's fancy way of saying "the place where your code is stored." That URL could be your repository on GitHub, or another user's fork, or even on a completely different server.

Use git remote -v to list all the listed remotes for that particular repository.

Creating a new remote ...

git remote add origin  <REMOTE_URL>

This associates the name origin with the REMOTE_URL which can be a HTTPS or SSH address.

Adding a new remote ...

To add a new remote, use the git remote add command on the terminal, in the directory your repository is stored at. This command takes two arguments:

A remote name, for example, origin
A remote URL, for example, https://github.com/user/repo.git

For example

$ git remote add origin https://github.com/user/repo.git
# Set a new remote
$ git remote -v
# Verify new remote
origin  https://github.com/user/repo.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/user/repo.git (push)

Changing a remote's URL ...

The git remote set-url <existing_remote_name> <new_remote_url> command changes an existing remote repository URL.

$ git remote -v
origin  [email protected]:USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git (fetch)
origin  [email protected]:USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git (push)

$ git remote set-url origin https://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git

$ git remote -v
# Verify new remote URL
origin  https://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git (push)

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